[Mage] Yay buffs incoming!

We'll see what they are but...

"After a few more days, we now think mage DPS is low. We want to keep parity among mage specs so the buffs will likely be fairly passive."
...if anyone can link to GC's twitter...i can't post links yet
twitter.com/Ghostcrawler/status/311278474507714563

Well i hope that with scaling from CM we wont get nerfed around half of contnet. Anyway mage is class with most outdated mechanic. Mana talents which are pain in ass, nearly 0 mobility while performing dps and poor aoe.

Frost
Im hoping for an increased chance to proc FoF in frost, its a bit boring spamming frost bolt all the time. Then I wouldn't mind casting a couple of unbuffed frost bolts to get a FoF proc, would make switching targets less of a penalty and improve overall DPS.

Fire
Allowing fire and only fire to spread its dots to say more than 3 targets including living bomb. If locks can take their whole dot set and move it to a pack fire should be allowed to do the same. Its fire for gods sake, it spreads! This should fix fires AoE problems. Possibly reverting the Pyro nerf and buffing combution could fix single target issues. RNG of fire will not be addressed this expansion.

Arcane
Demage modifier to the spells I suppose. The whole play style needs a revamp, not this expansion.

They simply won't buff Frost to much. Last Expansion Blizzard openly said they are fine with Frost being the PVP spec, and will tune it more for PVP. It just so happens Fire and Arcane are so awful now, they are all at the bottom where Frost normally is. Even if Fire and Arcane were back to their former Glory, Frost would be the second worst spec in the game next to Beastmaster for PVE.

I expect Fire and especially Arcane to get a buff. Although I would like to see them completely revamp Arcane, getting rid of 99 percent of the spells and creating new ones. It won't happen this expansion.

What they need to do is some how make Fire easier to get into. You should not have to have a full set of T15 for it to be viable. It completely stops tons of players from going Fire, and hurts them getting into raid groups. Saying "trust me guys, my DPS will go up once you give me a full set of T15", is not a compelling argument to get into a new raid group.

They can do this by making certain things proc using more factor than just crit. This would lower the total amount of Crit needed to spec fire, and not make it as RNG. They should also allow fire to spread all over the place.

Arcane is a tough one. I say just revert the changes for now. Arcane was the best spec in the game along with Affliction. I don't see how that means it's OP. We are a pure damage class with no utility. With no cool features outside of portals. We play this game to blow shit up. it is not like Arcane was 10 times ahead of Affliction. It was right on par with it.

They simply won't buff Frost to much. Last Expansion Blizzard openly said they are fine with Frost being the PVP spec, and will tune it more for PVP. It just so happens Fire and Arcane are so awful now, they are all at the bottom where Frost normally is. Even if Fire and Arcane were back to their former Glory, Frost would be the second worst spec in the game next to Beastmaster for PVE.

I expect Fire and especially Arcane to get a buff. Although I would like to see them completely revamp Arcane, getting rid of 99 percent of the spells and creating new ones. It won't happen this expansion.

What they need to do is some how make Fire easier to get into. You should not have to have a full set of T15 for it to be viable. It completely stops tons of players from going Fire, and hurts them getting into raid groups. Saying "trust me guys, my DPS will go up once you give me a full set of T15", is not a compelling argument to get into a new raid group.

They can do this by making certain things proc using more factor than just crit. This would lower the total amount of Crit needed to spec fire, and not make it as RNG. They should also allow fire to spread all over the place.

Arcane is a tough one. I say just revert the changes for now. Arcane was the best spec in the game along with Affliction. I don't see how that means it's OP. We are a pure damage class with no utility. With no cool features outside of portals. We play this game to blow shit up. it is not like Arcane was 10 times ahead of Affliction. It was right on par with it.

i agree with 100% on making fire more user friendly for low itlvls, after the 5.1 nerfs its just been hurting so bad without heroic lvl gear, revert the pyro nerf, allow for your bomb to spread again and bring in the pyro dot for combustion back to 30%